Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 25, 1908, Page 3

ar FLAMES LEAVE TOWN IN ASHES Business District 6f Carrington, N. D., Suffers Loss Amount- ing to $150,000. ONLY TWO STORES ARE LEFT Carrington, N. D., March 22.—Orig- inating in the Hunts’ pool-line stove, fire early yesterday morning practical- ly wiped this town off the map, caus- ing a loss of $150,000. The whole bus- iness section was destroyed, but two brick stores remaining. The flames had made good headway before they were discovered, it being 2:30 o’clock when a general alarm was sounded. The fire department, with the assist- ance of the volunteers, had no more than started to work, when the water apparatus refused to operate, thus rendering all resistance to the fire fruitless. The trouble was due to the failure, of a new standpipe to furnish water, and the flames had spread to several buildings before water could be se- cured from another source. Battle Against Odds. The flames were constantly fanned by a strong wind and with little water power the 200 fire fighters battled against great odds, but not once did they falter, for five hours never ceas- ing their efforts to subdue the fire. It was after 7:30 before the confla- gration was under control, and then the fire had practically burned itself out, - ‘Women helped the men, both in ac- tually fighting the fire and supplying them with lunch, consisting of hot cof- fee and sandwiches. Most of the buildings, numbering fifteen in all, were totally destroyed. Some of the contents of the hardwara store and hotel were saved, but not enough to have any great effect on the total loss. The sufferers carried about 30 per cent insurance. Carrington .is the county seat of Foster county and has a population of 7,000. It is the railroad center for this district, five roads meeting here. MURDERED FOR MONEY. Young Farmer Is Shot Down Near York, N. D. York, N. D., March 22.—Hans Hal- verson, a bachelor farmer, living alone nine miles south of this place, was foully murdered some time yes- terday afternoon or evening. The body was found at 9 o’clock last night with two bullet holes in the body, through the back. The motive of the murder was clearly robbery, as Halverson usually carried quite a sum of money with him, and none was found. after the murder. No clue has yet been found to indicate the murderers. LARGER ACREAGE LIKELY. Conditions for/ Seeding and Growing o1 Crops Highly Encouraging. Mitchell, S. D., March 22.—Farmers are making preparations for an ag- gressive season of farming this year, and spring work will open up under more favorable circumstances this year than last, when warm weather did not set in until the latter part of May. There is plenty of moisture in the ground at this time to insure a speedy growth of the grains, for the snow that has fallen during the first three months has! amounted to more than three inches of moisture. SHOT BY MARSHAL. Bullets Win Over Pitchfork—Victim May Live. Cresco, Iowa, March 22.—While at- tempting to put an intoxicated man named Ed Boyd from a restaurant where he had created a disturbance, City Marshal Brown was attacked by Boyd with a pitchfork. The marshal fired several times at’ Boyd, three shots entering his body. It is thought Boyd will recover unless blood poi- soning sets in. SLASHES FELLOW PRISONER. Billings Jail Inmate Uses Razor on Halfbreed. Billings, Mont., March 22.—While confined in the county jail in this city R. K. Carr yesterday, made a desper- ate assault on Albert Kennedy, a half- breed Indian, with a razor, inflicting wounds which are serious and may prove “fatal. Officers are unable to say how the difficulty started. SHETLAND TWINS ARE TINY. One of the Little Colts Weighs Only Eighteen Pounds. Webster City, Iowa, March 22.—The smallest pair of colts ever born in the State of Iowa—at least so far as any general knowledge goes—were born yesterday afternoon at W. J. nroe’s farm southwest of this city. They are Shetland twins, both mares, and one weighs eighteen pounds, while the other just tips the scales at twenty- three. Both can stand up, and ‘they will live. KILLS WIFE; SHOOTS SELF Prominent Milwaukee Man, Failing to Kill Self, Confesses to the Police. Milwaukee, March 22.—George Wil- foughby, manager of the Jewett & Sherman company’s coffee and _ spice mills, early yesterday morning shot and killed his wife; Florence, Wil- loughby, at their home on Prospect avenue. After the murder Willough- by fired two shots into his breast over the heart. He may recover. After killing his wife and shooting himself Willoughby dragged himself downstairs to the basement, opened the side door so as to make it appear that burglars had committed the deed, hid the revolver in the wall of the basement and the ntelephoned for a doctor. Murderer Confesses. When the police were notified they were informed that a burglar had shot both Mr. and Mrs. Willoughy, but when the officer sarrived they at once concluded that it was murder and at- tempted suicide, ang later obtained a confession from Willoughby. Willoughby confessed to the police officers that he had committed the murder because he was infatuated with another woman, whom he had been supporting for four- years. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby last even- ing attended a social at the Park Place Methodist Episcopal ‘church, where both were prominent workers. Mr. Willoughby also taught a Sunday school class. After the social they visited his brother, Leroy Willoughby, Oakland and Hartford avenues, after which they returned to their home. There a quarrel followed, after which both retired. Chloroformed Her First. While Mrs. Willoughby was asleep he chloroformed her and then shot her behind the left ear, causing in- stant death. He then shot himself twice in the breast, the bullets pierc- ing his lung but missing his heart. Willoughby made the confession while he lay in bed, with Dr. Charles H. Lemon and Detective Dennis- Sulli- van and a nurse standing over him. At first he denieg that he had shot his wife, but when the police showed him that the burglar theory was impossi- bie he confessed. PROMISE TO MAKE TROUBLE. Buyick Men Threaten to Tell Things That Will Make It Hot for Others. Duluth, March 22.—Charles Buyick and W. A, James, former officials of the town of Buyick, who are charged with having manipulated the funds of the town to their own advantage, and who are sued to recover something over $30,000, came back in an inter- view and say that they will show up a whole lot of people. They declare that the moneys ex- pended were handled to the best ad- vantage possible and that they never profited thereby in any degree more than they were reasonably entitled to. They claim that the suits against them have been instigated by lum- bermen who have escaped paying taxes and desire to have the town dis- organized in order that they may con- tine to escape taxes. They declare that they will make it hot for the arties who have “sought to make scapegoats of them.” ESCAPE IS FRUSTRATED. Carmody, Green and Sheehan Plan to Break Out of St. Cloud Jail. St. Cloud, March 22.—A well laid plan for the escape of Edward Car- mody, Johnny Green and Pat Sheehan, the-trio mixed up in the Becker shoot- ing, was frustrated last night by the arrest of John Johnson, a go-between, who was carrying a letter asking for aid to St. Paul friends of the prison- ers. Johnson was sentenced to thirty days in jail a month ago for disorder- ly conduct. He occupied a cell ad- joining that of Green. The two men became friendly and the plan for es- cape was laid out. ~ The released prisoner was no soon- er out of jail than he began drinking and was intoxicated a few hours later. The fellow began showing the letter in saloons, which led to his ar- rest shortly after. OPEN BLACKFOOT LAND. Allotments and Surveys to Be Made First. Billings, Mont., March 22. —- Word was received here yesterday that the Blackfoot Indian reservation will be opened for settlement as soon as the allotments can be made to the Indians and the surveys made. Chief Engi- neer Savage will go to the reservation at once to direct the work. The land to be opened embraces an area of 40,- 000 acres. Kills Self With Knife. Washington, March 22.—In a fit of despondency Frank H. Hoaford, a well known newspaper correspondent and former reading clerk of the house of representatives, committed suicide here yesterday with a knife. Smallpex and No Physicians. La Crosse, Wis., March 22. — With the only physician in town quaran- tined in his home, Waterville, Iowa. is having an epidemic of smalJpox which has already assumed alarming proportions 4 “the Northwest kis Asa ar BANDITS BREAK ~ JAIL IN HELENA Alleged Robbers of Oriental Lim- ited Are Being Hunted by Armed Posses. SAW THROUGH STEEL BARS Helena, Mont., March 24. — In pur- suit of Charles McDonald and George Frank Hauser, two desperate train robbers who escaped yesterday morn- ing from the county jail after sawing through four sets of steel bars, a posse of deputies and county officials are searching the hills near Helena. McDonald and Hauser were to have been tried next Morfday on the charge of holding up the Oriental Limited on ‘the Great Northern last September; at which time they secured $40,000. Returned Empty Handed. Two of the three posses that set out yesterday morning returned at dusk empty handed after running down a dozen different clues and spending an entire day in the search. While the other and larger posse is still out, it had not at last reports met with any better luck, because of the many pros- pect holes/ miners’ cabins and tim- ber. Apparently well founded reports as to the whereabouts of the men were obtained from ranchmen, miners and others, but all came to naught, and the impression prevails now that the men have remained in hiding near the city during the day, hoping to escape later. Saw Through Cell Doors. The men made their escape by saw- ing through their cell doors and then by cutting the bars between. the corri- dors and also in a jail window into the yard. They scaled the high wall by means of outbuildings and jumped at least fifteen feet into an alleyway. Despite the fact that the delivery was discovered within an hour after their escape the men disappeared as if swallowed up. The ground is very dry and the county ploodhounds were unable to do any effective work. The two are regatded as the most desperate of Northwestern bandits. That they are armed and will make a desperate resistance before submitting to capture is not doubted. MACDIARMID tS INDICTED. Fraud, Theft and Perjury Among the Charges Against Bankers. Marshalltown, Iowa, March 24.—Dr. Stuart MacDiarmid and Donald A. Johnson of Omaha, president and cash- jer of the closed Green Mountain Sav- ings bank, were indicted in seven counts returned by the grand jury. The indictments charge fraudulent banking, embezzlement, perjury, re- ceiving deposits for an insvivent bank and making false entries in the bank's books. TRY TEACHERS ON DOG. Fergus Falls Home Talent Must Serve Apprenticeship. Fergus Falls, Minn., March 24.—The board of education has adopted a reso- lution declaring it to be the policy of this city to employ no Fergus Falls teachers in the schools here until they have had at least two years’ experi- ence in succéssful teaching in other places. CRAZED BY GRIEF. Brother of Man Found Dead Is Taken to Asylum. Osceola, Wis., March 24.—John Hou- gan, a brother of Jacob O. Hougan, who was found on the shore of Sucker lake last week, was taken to the insane hospital at Mendota for treatment. The finding of the body of his dead brother caused him to lose his mind. POISON IN HAY. } ‘Wisconsin Man’s Valuable Driving Horse Is Killed. ~ Chippewa Falls, Wis., March 24.—A package of paris green in a bale of hay killed Game Warden De Long’s valuable driving horse. Whether the package had been placed in the hay out of spite or had accidentally fallen into it is not known. BOTH LEGS CUT OFF. Doctors Hope to’ Save Life of Section Foreman at Morris. Morris, Minn., March 24. — Joseph Schroeder, a section foreman, was knocked down by an engine and run over, cutting off both legs just below the knees. By amputation the physi- cians hope to save his life. BURNED IN JAIL. Chippewa County Farmer Thought to Have Set Himself Afire. Chippewa Falls, March 24. — John Kohl, a well known Chippewa county farmer, was burned to death last night in the new Auburn jail. Shortly after he had been incarcerated the jail caught fire and Kohl’s clothing was badly burned and badly charred. It is believed that Kohl set fire to his clothing. He was arrested for drunkenness, - i ER SHUN WHEAT IN FARM TALKS. Diversified Agriculture Js Urged by Speakers. The farmers’ institute held in vookston was admittedly the best that has ever been held in this part of the valley. The meeting in the city hall was attended by 600 farmers. It was presided over by R.A. Schutz of Le Roy, Minn. Subjects of every character except the growth of wheat were taken up by the speakers in the meeting. Notably absent was «ny reference to the growth of wheat, to the steady cultivation of which zeu- erally has been attributed the grain distress throughout the valley of late years, The meeting was made as much a town as a country affair. The farm- ers were treated to a dinner’given by the business men. A large part of the success of the institute is due to Prof. Robertson of the Minnesota state ex- periment farm and school of agricul- ture. Other speakers at the meeting in the city hall were C. W. Hale of Stewartville, C. O. Carlson of Erskine, Senator A. D, Stephens of Crookston, Col. Wilkinson of St. Paul, Prof. L. P. Harrington of the state experiment farm, and J. E. O’Brien of Crookston. In the evening the farmers who re- mained in the city attended the meet- ing of the Twenty-five Thousand club during a report of the canning factory committee, who recently returned from a trip of inspection through Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. While their report was unsatisfactory on a canning factory with $25,000 cap- italization, as proposed to the club by experts some weeks ago, yet they were deeply interested in the practi- cability of the plan as far as the re- sources of the country hereabouts was concerned. The proposed change in the plans, making the canning fac- tory capitalized at $40,000, was back- ed by Senator A. D. Stephens, who ad- vised the attending farmers that should they grow the crop and show grounds for investment there would be little or no trouble in securing the capital. : Q SURVEY ALONG ROSEAU LINE. Engineer’s Work May Be in Interest of Electric Project. Jarvis C. Mott of Chicago, a civil engineer who has_ been staying in Crookston for the last two or three days, departed for Greenbush, Minn. He hired and took with him a cook and had in his baggage survey instru- ments sufficient to make a prelimi- nary survey. He intends to operate for four weeks along the well known Greénbush-Roseau sand ridge, upon the apex of which the Great Northern grade for the proposed Greenbush- Warroad extension has already been built and has been waiting for the last three years for steel. It is well known that electric companies and promoters have been watching the conditions which developed in| connec- tion with this grade construction ever since there, arose from the inhabi- tants of Roseau county and tributary country a protest against the delay in laying the steel. CONVENTION IN JUNE, Operative Millers’ Association Meet- ing Will Be Held in Minneapolis. The date for the meeting of the Operative Millers’ association will probably be set for the second week in June, according to a_ statement made by Wallace G. Nye of the pub- lic affairs committee of the Minneap- olis Commercial club. “The date has not been finally set,” said Mr. Nye, “but I think undoubted- ly it will take place during the sec- ond week of June.” During the next two months the official organ of the fraternity, which is published in Chicago, is to carry il- lustrated articles on Minneapolis, the cuts and reading matter to be furnish- ed by the Minneapolis Commercial club. b MADE HEAD BUTTERMAKER, J. J. Bork of St. Peter Gets Position at Federal Station. J. J. Bork of St. Peter butter. maker at the St. Peter creamery, has recently been appointed but- maker at the government ex- periment station at Albert Lea, Minn. His appointment comes from Ed H. Webster, chief of the dairy division of the United States department of agriculture, and will take effect on April 1. pans Miia oa aayede McConnell Is Re-elected. The Mankato school board has unanimously re-elected Supt. J. M. Me- Connell and practically every other public school teacher. There are few- er resignations than usual. The board has under advisement plans for a $13,- 000 addition to the high school, and when this is built domestic science will be introduced. en t Heats’ Coop; Fowls Smother. Ernest Volkman of the town of Star Lake lost sixty chickens in a pecul- iar manner. His chicken coop was cold and he set a pan of live coals into it to warm it and closed the door, leaving it for about two hours. When he again visited the coop he found that the chickens had been overcome by the gas from the coals, and one by one had dropped from thelr perches until sixty were dead. he State Day by Day PASSES FOUR-SCORE MARK. George Washington Benedict Cele brates Birthday. George Washington Benedict, a pio- meer newspaper man of Minnesota. celebrated his eighty-second birthday Friday. He was born in Rochester, Y., March 20, 1826, and the family soon afterward moved to lower Cana- da, where the son devoted his atten- tion to growing up and acquiring an education. Along in his teens he be came a printer’s devil and worked as a youth in the printing offices in Ham- ilton and other Canadian towns, and also in New York state. In 1851 he came as far west as Tecumseh, Mich. and established the Herald, which he published for three years. He took naturally to politics and while a resi- dent of Michigan was a delegate to the National Whig convention which nominated Gen. Scott for president. In 1854 he moved to Sauk Rapids, Minn., and established the Frontiers- man for Jeremiah Russell. Benedict edited this paper for four years and then started the New Era, which was published for some time. He then went to St. Paul and worked as a printer on the old Pioneer and after- wards was foreman of the St. Paul HON, G. W. NEDICT, Probably the oldest living newspaper man in Minnesota and oldest living settler of Sauk Rapids. Press, and later had charge of the printing department of the Pioneer. In 1868 he heeded the call of the Rapids and established the Sentinel. About this time he also published the Alexandria Post, but soon disposed of his interest. In 1872 he took a turn at journalism in St. Cloud, and with oth- ers established the St. Cloud Press but, closed out his share a year later. He returned to Sauk Rapids and re- established the Sentinel, which he sold to W. L. Nieuman in 1875. Some time later he bought it back and con- tinued as its publisher and editor un- til about four years ago, when he sold it to Fred Daggett. or something over half a century he wac actively engaged in the news- paper business—from 1851 to 1902. In- cidentally he held the office of clerk of the district court in 1856; was state senator in 1874 and deputy collector of internal revenue in 1876, which po- sition he held for several years. It is a rather ‘curious fact that all the papers with which he was con- pected or which he established in Min- nesota, now doing business at the old stand, have. double-headed titles— Sauk Rapids Sentinel-Free Press, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Alexandria Post- News and the St. Cloud Journal-Press. The golden jubilee number of the Journal-Press contains the following article written by C. A. Gilman, on Sauk Rapids: “The men of Sauk Rapids of fifty years ago, and now living, are very few, the best known one still living there being probably Mr. Benedict, who set type for-and worked on the first newspaper published north of the Twin Cities and upon the first printing press used. in the territory, and who is perhaps the oldest newspaper man living in Minnesota.” Mr. Gilman, in another portion of the article quoted, said: “Mr, Benedict is probably the oldest resident now living in Sauk Rapids.” “Uncle Ben” has witnessed and been an important factor in the great transformation from the time when Sauk Rapids was the Western frontier up to this day. ' MOUNTAIN LION SEEN. B. C. Everett was at Tower from the dam last week and brought with him the startling news that a large moun- tain lion had been seen several times in the vicinity of the Alger-Smith camps. Mr. Everett states that on sev- eral occasions he and others have seen and examined the tracks which the huge animal had left in the fresh snow but a few hours before and that they measured five and one-half by six inches. ALA SG aS TO HAVE MANUAL TRAINING. Prof. H. E. Flynn has been re-elect- ed superintendent of schools and prin- cipal of the high school at Sauk Rap- ids at an increase in salary of $30 a month to $1,260 for the year. Prof. Flynn will add manual training and sewing to the curriculum next /year. He will teach carpentry and drawing, and one of the teachers will have charge of the sewing department. The choice of all the other teachers in the schools is left with the superintend- ent. | WATER DELAYS ORE SHAFT. Iron Seekers on the Cuyuna Range Are Hampered.’ Great difficulty is being experienced by the Rogers-Brown Ore company in N.| its work of sinking on the Cuyuna dis- trict, in Hubbard county, where it is putting down a three compartment shaft. This shaft, though under way since early last summer, has not yet reached ledge, and water conditions are occasionally such as to delay ma- terially. Just at present the shaft is badly drowned by the inflow. There is little doubt that work on the Cuyu- na is likely to suffer from this sort of thing indefinitely. Very little explora- tion is under way in the district, and the number of drills there is less than at any time in the past three years. This winter iron explorations have béen conducted in North Central Minnesota, west of Cuyuna, in Otter- tail county, where magnetic attrac tions were discovered and noted par- ticularly after similar phenomena had been found on the Cuyuna to point to bodies of imperfectly concen- trated iron ores. Still another field is now in the eyes of some pioneers, and a line of magnetic attraction has developed, lying in the southeast part of Hub- bard county, Minnesota, about seven- ty-five miles northwest of the Cuyana district. This has served to upset theories of amateur geologists, and some of them are now wondering if the whole of Northern Minnesota may not become an iron mine. These Hubbard county explorations have not progressed very far, and it may be a long time before the public is startled by the news of a new min- ing district. HEETER LAYS DOWN THE LAW. Tells Northern Teachers How to Con- duct Schools. A very large attendance of teach- ers and school officers from the five counties of Clay, Otter Tail, Norman, Becker and Wilkin was a feature of the first annual educational conven- tion which opened in the auditorium of the normal school at Moorhead. Supt. Boklander of Detroit presided. The general theme of the address was “The School in the Community.” The principal address of the session was by S. L. Heeter, superintendent of the city schools of St. Paul. -He spoke on “The True Function of the Public School.” First and foremost, the speaker insisted that the public schools must be democratic in tenden- cy; that school authorities must give more attention than has been given to the preparation of pupils attending the common schools for the active duties of life. He discussed the subject from a practical point of view and reviewed the work which could be done in the way of industrial arts, domestic sci- ence and kindred branches. He con- demned present methods to a great extent. A committee on organization was appointed, consisting of Supt. McLean of Fergus Falls, Supt. Van Cleve of Barnesville and President Weld of the normal. GREAT WINTER FOR ROADS. Delays to Trains Trifling—No Stalling in Drifts. The most remarkable winter for railroading in the Red river valley is drawing to a close. On the Great Northern 96 per cent of the passenger trains and 93 per cent of the freight trains have arrived either promptly on time or not more than two minutes late. On the Northern Pacific 95 per cent of the passenger trains have been on time and 94 per cent of the freight trains. Such a feat has been unheard of be- fore in Northwest railroading. Not a train has been stalled in a snow drift on the northern division of the Great Northern'or the Red river valley, branch of the Northern Pacific. ORE TAX ABATEMENTS. Independent Mine Owners Want $15, 000,000 Knocked Off. A delegation of independent mine owners were in conference with the state tax commission at St. Paul con- cerning an application by the mine owners for an abatement of $15,000,- 000 in the valuation of their mines on the iron range. They set up that the commission overvalued their proper- ties in this amount. This application for abatement fol- lowing the application of the Steel trust a week or ten days ago makes @ total of $50,000,000 which the commis- sion is asked to take off the iron mines valued by the commission at $196,000,000. WATCH MORA GROW. Motto of the Commercial Club Just Organized. An enthusiastic meeting attended by a large percentage of business men and representative citizens organized the Mora Commercial club, with the following officers: President, Charles F. Serline; vice president, J. C. Pope; secretary, George H. Newbert; assist- ant secretary, M. H. Manderfelt; treasurer, I. C. Crusoe. The slogan of the Commercial club will be “Watch Mora Grow.”